BIOS Threat is Showing up Again!

Tom172

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Feb 11, 2011
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Analysis of Trojan.Mebromi/Boot.Mebromi

There are more and more known viruses that infect the MBR (Master Boot Record). Symantec Security Response has published a blog to demonstrate this trend last month. However, we seldom confront with one that infects the BIOS. One of them is the notorious CIH appeared in 1999, which infected the computer BIOS and thus harmed a huge number of computers at that time. Recently, we met a new threat named Trojan.Mebromi that can add malicious components into Award BIOS which allows the threat to take control of the system even before MBR.

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/bios-threat-showing-again
 

jamescv7

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Mar 15, 2011
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When I read it, came on my mind that also a notorious BIOS Rootkit was exist before.
 

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